Apple
Applied Machine Learning Research Engineer - Multimodal for Human Understanding
$150K–$278K
Sunnyvale, California · Full-time · Posted Nov 19, 2025
- Experience
- 3 years of relevant industry experience, in addition to a Master’s degree.
- Education
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
About the job
Develops and productizes machine-learning systems for human and activity understanding, taking research ideas through evaluation and into Apple products.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, and evaluate novel algorithms and models across AI, generative modeling, and computer vision.
- Build and productize ML systems for understanding human motion, activities, and representations.
- Collaborate across research, engineering, design, and domain teams to ship user-facing products.
What they ask for
- Strong experience developing machine-learning models.
- Proficiency in Python and solid software engineering fundamentals.
- Experience with at least one deep-learning framework, such as PyTorch or JAX, or equivalent.
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, plus 3 years of relevant industry experience.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience training and deploying production-grade ML models; experience developing multimodal LLMs or generative models.
- Production-level experience with a compiled language (e.g., Swift, C++); expertise in computer vision, machine learning, multimodal LLMs, Reinforcement Learning, or Agentic AI; or a relevant PhD.
Pay
$150,400 and $277,600 USD base salary
Tools
Python, PyTorch, JAX, Swift, C++
AI focus
Develops and productizes ML systems for human understanding, including motion, activities, and representation learning; work spans multimodal foundation and large language models, generative modeling, and computer vision.
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